Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 10/16/2013 - 9:01am
By ART CULLEN
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice created a bit of news Friday in clearing up a question at the William Siebens American Heritage Lecture at Buena Vista University.
She was not in Iowa to launch a presidential campaign.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Tue, 10/08/2013 - 9:30am
The only poll that matters 13 months from now will result in King prevailing
By ART CULLEN
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 10/02/2013 - 9:00am
By ART CULLEN
Storm Lake attorney Willis Hamilton is questioning whether the Iowa Attorney General’s Office is dragging its feet on the criminal prosecution or civil commitment of a man who allegedly raped Hamilton’s client at a nursing home in Pomeroy.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Tue, 09/24/2013 - 1:13pm
By ART CULLEN
The year was 1933. Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany and dissolved Parliament. US troops left Nicaragua. FDR survived an assassination attempt. Prohibition ended. A bank holiday was declared at the peak of the Great Depression.
And Chuck Grassley was born in Butler County, Iowa.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Mon, 09/16/2013 - 4:31pm
By ART CULLEN
Area school districts might be able to stave off declining enrollment and relieve existing property tax payers thanks to new revenue from wind turbines.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Tue, 09/10/2013 - 1:06pm
By ART CULLEN
One could argue that the two pieces of federal legislation that matter most to Buena Vista County are passing a new five-year farm bill, and doing something about immigration.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Wed, 09/04/2013 - 9:10am
By ART CULLEN
It ain’t the heat, it’s the humiliation that gets to you on a football Saturday in Ames, Iowa City and Manhattan (Kansas, that is).
Iowa State fell to Northern Iowa. Northern Illinois — quick: where is it? — took down Iowa. North Dakota State downed Kansas State.
Congressman Bruce Braley, right, visited with Jim Eliason and Carolyn Ashbaugh Saturday at the home of Diane and Steve Hamilton in Storm Lake.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Tue, 08/27/2013 - 1:30pm
By ART CULLEN
Bruce Braley strode onto new turf Saturday in his quest to succeed Tom Harkin as Iowa’s liberal senator.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Tue, 08/13/2013 - 2:46pm
By ART CULLEN
Small rural school districts talk sharing because of, first, athletics. The main reason they talk athletic sharing is because of football. The small school can’t field a team with 11 on each side. It is not advanced physics or vo-tech or orchestra that drive school consolidation talk, it is football.
Submitted by
clare@stormlake.com on Tue, 08/06/2013 - 2:48pm
By ART CULLEN
Back in the day — content warning to youth: old-guy ramblings to follow — we pounded away on L.C. Smith typewriters over the din of Linotypes and the occasional hot lead explosion in the smelting room on a humid day. The young pups laugh at me as I bash away on a computer keyboard and reminisce about setting headlines on a Ludlow in hot type.
